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of these heaters on small fruits like strawberries and fruits 

 of that kind? 



Mr. Mincer: I have made no observations of that kind at 

 all. 



Professor Emerson: I saw an account of an experiment 

 in Colorado and this indicated that they were of very little 

 value for small fruit, its value depending? upon the thickness 

 of the stand of trees, in young orchards there was less pro- 

 tection than in older orchards where there is more top to hold 

 the heat. This statement came from some one around Grand 

 Junction. 



Mr. Davis : I guess there never has been found anything 

 that would help. The only benefit ever received from the 

 smoke is that the smoke will scatter over the fields and make 

 a cloud, but as far as the heat is concerned I can not learn 

 that they ever invented anything that will help that any. 



Mr. Mincer: No matter what kind of fuel you burn it 

 forms a cloud above the trees and what heat there is is held 

 to the ground and the temperature would be a great deal 

 higher than it would be up from the ground. 



President Green: Our next topic is Nebraska at the 

 Horticultural Congress if 1909, by Mr. C. H. Barnard, of 

 Table Rock, Nebraska. 



Mr. Barnard read his report as follows : 



THE NATIONAL HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS 



OF 1909. 



C. H. BARNARD^ TABLE ROCK. 



At the last summer meeting of this Society a committee 

 was appointed and an appropriation of $300 made to make 

 an exhibit at the National Horticultural Congress to be held 

 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 16-20 inclusive. The 

 writer of this article was selected to gather and install the 

 exhibit. 



